Founded in 1971, JMT is an employee-owned firm that provides a full range of multi-disciplined engineering, architectural, and related services to public agencies and private clients throughout the United States. Our staff of more than 730 professionals — engineers, architects, planners, environmental scientists, surveyors, construction and program managers, inspectors, designers, CADD technicians, and GIS and information technology specialists — is dedicated to the highest-quality project performance.
JMT has grown considerably during past four decades. The company was founded primarily to perform engineering services in support of land development projects. In 1979, JMT entered the public works market by focusing on transportation engineering for Federal, state and local public agencies. Over time, JMT extensively diversified both our service offerings and our client base.
Today, JMT provides consulting services to a wide variety of public and private entities. This diversification of markets and services has resulted in considerable geographic expansion from our original office in Silver Spring, Maryland, to 16 strategically located offices, and we now provide services across the United States. (source)

Founded in 1915 by Leo A. Daly, the firm soon rose to national prominence as one of the first to pioneer the use of interdisciplinary project teams to ensure maximum efficiency and client satisfaction. This practice quickly became the industry standard. Under the leadership of Leo A. Daly, Jr., the firm solidified its reputation as a world leader, expanding both its domestic and international portfolio and adding hundreds of the most talented design professionals to its ranks. (source)

EMPLOYEES:International team of 24 associates and over 300 collaborators

BIO: Herzog and de Meuron Architekten is a Swiss architecture firm founded in Basel, Switzerland in 1978. With work in Europe, North and South America, and Asia, the firm has completed numerous projects ranging from private homes and offices to large-scale museums and stadiums. Their work has historically focused on modern yet minimalist styling, offering subtly beautiful and practical designs. However, as seen in Beijing’s new National Stadium (shown below), the firm is equally if not more so capable of generating designs that awe and astound. The firm has received many awards for its work, including the Pritzker Architecture Prize (2001), the RIBA Royal Gold Medal (2007), and the Praemium Imperiale (2007)

JACQUES HERZOG AND PIERRE DE MEURON:

Herzog (left) and de Meuron (right)

The firm’s founding architects have much in common. Born in the same year in 1950, the pair attended the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zürich, the establishment where they are currently professors. Since 1994, Herzog and de Meuron have been visiting professors at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and are also co-founders of the ETH Studio Basel- Contemporary City Institute which carries out research on the processes of transformation in the urban domain.